Yeah I don’t see too many of the Israel haters rushing to tour Gaza or the West Bank.
Haters are going to hate......
Elvis Costello and Roger Waters - all that talent, and not a lick of sense.
It’s nice to see that some of these people aren’t complete imbeciles.
I’ve always thought that Elton John, no matter or weird or wacky his persona has never lost the “common touch”. And he is very fair minded. I saw him interviewed after he sang that song at Princess Diana’s funeral. You’ll remember it was “Candle in the Wind” with new lyrics. And the interviewer said to him: so, you re-wrote the song for this...and Elton John said: well, actually Bernie Taupin re-wrote the song. My guess is a lot of people would have said, oh yes, I did. Or maybe “we did”, but he gave all the credit to the other guy.
And I’ve always thought Mick Jagger is smart. A little nuts, maybe, but not in any way dumb.
Music is forbidden by fundamentalist Isamicists.
Actually this won’t pose much of a problem for most of the so-called “artists” who are working so diligently to usher in the global Calliphate.
I’m a MUCH bigger fan of Pink Floyd than Elton John (Just look at my username), but I gotta hand it to Sir Elton here. He played Israel, ignoring his left-wing cohorts, AND he played Rush Limbaugh’s wedding. How cool is that! Besides, I was a huge fan of his back in the early 70s, like every other kid in America.
The whole BDS movement is just thinly disguised antisemitism, and in Waters’ case it’s not so thinly disguised.
I sat through 45 minutes of PETA crap waiting for Sir Paul to take the stage. Sir Elton’s shows were always about the music. An excellent showman!
When Jagger heard that Costello and Waters were boycotting Israel he said, “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.” He and the Stones then added another performance to their schedule in Israel. Good on ya, Sir Mick!